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(No Mod NAPKIN RING. No. 343,688. Patented'June 15, 1886-.

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PATENT ti SUSAN E. BAR NEY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

NAPKlN-RING.

A SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 343,688, dated June15, 1886.

Application filed October 6, 1885. Serial No. 179,094. No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, SUSAN E. BARNEY, of Spuyten Duyvil, in the city ofNew York and State of New York, and a citizen of the United States, haveinvented a new and useful I'mprovement in Napkin-Rings, of which thefollowing, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is afull, clear, and accurate description.

The object of my invention is to produce a napkin-ring so formed andarranged that the name of a person written or marked on a slip of paperor other proper material can be readily and conveniently placed thereonfor the purpose of identifying the napkin which is inclosed in the ring.The ring is also so arranged as to allow the slip of'paper or othermaterial to be readily and conveniently removed and another namesubstituted instead.

, Theinvention consists in providing the napkin-ring, which may be ofwood or other suitable material, with a groove for the reception of theslip of paper or other material on which the name is marked, so formedas to allow the said slip of paper or material to be readily inserted inthe groove and there held securely until it is desired to remove it, andthen allow such slip of paper or other material to be easily removed andanother substituted in its lace.

In the drawings, Figure l is a view of a napkin-ring embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section, and Fig. 3 is a verticalsection, of the same.

The same parts in the different figures are designated by similarletters.

A represents the napkin-ring, and B B the sides of a groove cut orformed on its surface, wider at the bottom than at the top, so as tosecurely hold a slip of paper or other material, O, on which any desiredname is written or marked.

D D are transverse slits cut in the raised My invention is peculiarlyadapted for the U use ofhotels and boarding-houses,where guests areconstantly changing, as the name of the person can be readily attachedto each napkinring, thus identifying the napkin as long as desired, andthe name of another person readily substituted.

I am aware that grooved receptacles have been made for the reception oflabels-as, for instance, in the bottle-label holder patented October 10,1852, No. 265,863; but I am not aware that any curved articlesuch asanapkin-ring-has been provided with a groove in its curved surface, inconnection with a slot or slots extending at an angle from the bottom ofthe groove to the external surface of the ring in such a way that aflexible intervening slip,bearing aname or other identifying mark, canbe readily inserted into the groove through the slots, while it issecurely held therein, and accidental removal is prevented by the angleof the incline of the inserting-slot.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent,

A napkin-ring provided on the external surface thereof with a grooveformed with overlapping edges or flanges and with a slit or slits forthe insertion and removal of identif ing-slips, such slit or slitsextending from the base of such groove to the external surface of thering, substantially as described.

SUSAN n. BARNEY.

lVitnesses:

GEO. O. HOLT, CHAS. A. DECKER.

